Archivo de la categor&iacutea Open eTwinning

The second edition of the MOOC Open eTwinning took place from April 20th to June 2nd, with an enrolment of participants from over 43 countries. As it happened in the first edition, this MOOC was conducted in English and sparked interest in many areas around the world, but especially in South and Eastern Europe. Although the number of total participants that started the MOOC (174 according to the number of digital portfolios that were registered on the platform) was lower than in the previous edition, the number of interactions on social networks as well as the number of badges issued…

Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. It’s after-dinner time at #twinmooc. The five-course menu is over and this Thursday no new dishes will be brought to our buffet table. This does not mean that we have to leave the restaurant at all. For many people, these after-dinner talks are the best part of the meal. We still have over one week (until Friday, 02/06) ahead for new projects to be submitted, assessed and…

Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After more than one month working on it, #twinmooc has possibly no secrets for most of the participants. We have been surfing around, doing activities, overcoming challenges and writing dozens of messages in the different social networks. We have also learnt about the key elements of a project, as well as how to make it more social and more digital. Some may have already visited the…

Awesome third week at #twinmooc!!! Interest is growing among participants as we get closer to the final design of a quality eTwinning project. All the research and shared reflections of units 1 and 2 make sense now that we can use them to shape a first draft of a project that will, eventually, be our gateway of access to the whole eTwinning experience. There have been excellent exchanges in our networks circles on Facebook, sharing entries, comments and feedback. That means that users are really involved in the process of the MOOC. The slogan of the week has been: Share, cooperate…

#twinmooc is getting older. Two weeks is almost half its life and as far as we can see, it’s growing safe and healthy. We’ve reached the ‘round number’ of 1,000 participants and expect many more as new activities, challenges and events are being known and the word is being spread. Remember that registration is permanently open throughout the duration of the MOOC at http://mooc.educalab.es/ Along this second week we have been setting the stage for what will be the ‘raison d’être’ of this MOOC, that is, designing a collaborative learning project that can, eventually, be the basis of an eTwining…

When we are about to turn the first week of “Open eTwinning” we would like to share with you a summary of the activities and challenges of this first week. If you have not yet completed all the challenges, or you haven’t even started them, don’t worry; the MOOC will remain open until june 2 and it’s only you who decide the rhythm of your progress. Let’s start revising a few numbers just to have a broad idea of the size of the digital conversation which is taking place within this MOOC. After a week of activity, more than 900 people…

We are happy to welcome you to this new edition of “Open eTwinning”, a Massive Online Open Course organized by the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado (INTEF) and the Spanish eTwinning National Support Service . As you probably know, a MOOC is a self-access learning course which takes place in an online platform with the support of other social networks like Twitter or Facebook. Upon registration, you’ll find plenty of possibilities to improve your knowledge on the topics of the course as well as help others to learn by sharing your findings, thoughts or ideas….

The first edition of the MOOC “Open eTwinning” took place from May 18th to June 29th, with an enrolment of over 1,500 participants. For the first time in a MOOC INTEF, the total number of enrolments from other countries was higher than the number of registrations from Spain. This was actually to be expected since this MOOC was our first-ever conducted in English, particularly aimed at all countries of the European Union that participate in the eTwinning programme. Due to these features, the MOOC sparked interest in almost every continent, as seen in the graph below, which shows the geographical distribution of…

It’s after-dinner time at #twinmmoc. The five-course menu is over and this Wednesday no new dishes will be brought to our buffet table. This does not mean that we have to leave the restaurant at all. For many people, these after-dinner talks are the best part of the meal. So, please, take a cup of coffee (or any other drink to your liking), seat back and enjoy the evening as you mop up the bits of chocolate from your dessert plate 🙂 It’s also possible that you haven’t finished your meal yet. Don’t worry; everything will keep open and working so…

And now, after over a month working together, it’s time, at last, to know the insights of eTwinning. Or, maybe the real insights of eTwinning are what we have been doing so far? That is, designing quality projects and improving them by means of self-reflection, peer feedback, ICT tools and so on. Because, without a good project, eTwinning is but another space to help people get in touch, which, incidentally is nothing that can’t be done on any of the many other platforms available for teachers. So, what makes eTwinning the number one teachers’ network? Really simple, here, in a…